News Coverage

InnovaTek selected as PNW Clean Tech Open Semifinalist

6-27-2009

The 12 semifinalists in the 2009 Pacific Northwest Cleantech Open were announced yesterday. The companies were chosen from a field of 56, with the next round of winners picked in September. Then these 12 will compete for three $50,000 regional prizes.

Small Reactor? Piece of Toast!

12-21-2006

A Richland-based company is receiving $500,000 from Chevron to help develop technology that gas stations can use to create hydrogen for fuel cell cars on site.

Richland firm to start producing air samplers

9-30-2003

InnovaTek Inc. announced Monday that it has secured nearly $1 million in loan financing to begin its first commercial production run of air samplers for government, medical and agricultural clients.

Cash infusion fuels expansion of biodefense industry

4-28-2002

Several small companies - such as MesoSystems and InnovaTek , both of the Tri-Cities - will brainstorm with health officials this week at the Biodefense Mobilization Conference in Seattle.

Cantwell's Tri-City tour productive

3-29-2002

Washington's junior senator unveiled plans to help retrain the Northwest's laid-off workers and bring sophisticated communications links to Southeastern Washington in a whirlwind tour Thursday.

Move Over Smoke Detectors, Anthrax Detectors are Coming

11-1-2001

A researcher working under an Office of Naval Research grant is just a couple of months away from completing a prototype detector designed to sound the alarm when airborne microbes such as anthrax are in the air.

Tri-Cities firms take aim at bioterrorism

10-28-2001

Some of the world's most advanced anthrax and biological-pathogen detectors are being created here by a small group of scientists and entrepreneurs, but they agree the quest for something truly accurate, automated and fast - a smoke detector - is still years away.

Bioterrorism: Sniffing out threats from unseen enemy

10-1-2001

If anthrax, bubonic plague or other biological-warfare agents were unleashed by terrorists, the materials could be sampled and detected within minutes because of scientific work being done in the Northwest.

State of Bio Defense: Not Good

9-21-2001

The experts also say it will take a level of scientific know-how to execute a biological attack that terrorists most likely don't have.